It starts with the Imperials finding him after being banished by the Chiss and then works through his ascension through the ranks. I'm 100 pages in. Finding time to read is hard with a kid and getting old

For me, personally, anything short of a production-level item is just odd looking in the collection and doesn't fit the bill for me. Even customs have to have a look. I've seen people do amazing work painting a Hasbro figure, but unless they're repainting every Hasbro figure, it just looks off somehow in the wall of stuff that doesn't jive with it.

I could not disagree more. I get it if your display is just a line of Hasbro toys that a custom painted fig can stick out like a sore thumb, but there's room in the collection for "oddities" and "out of place" things and it jives just fine.

The fact someone can tell my 4" Tzizvvt is a custom doesn't detract from the collection as a whole.

You people act like you just can't pick up an NES on ebay and mod it for better video. You can do that or buy a clone or emulate it. I saw no reason for a mini NES with so many other alternatives. If you have money burning a hole in your wallet, you can buy an Analogue NT mini with full HDMI and play games in 1080p.

Many casual users don't want--if they even know how--to mess with mods, emulators, ROMs, and any of that other ****. That's a big part of the appeal of the NES Classic. It's a really simple, plug-and-play, (theoretically) inexpensive way to play a bunch of games people remember from growing up. And all that without any of the moral/legal issues that come with emulators and ROMs.

And let's also not forget just how goddamn adorable it is. Nostalgia's a helluva drug.

I've had this obnoxious argument with my brother when I was trying to find one of these.

"You people act like you just can't pick up an NES on ebay and mod it for better video". This makes me laugh. Just that easy yep. How dare we just want to hand $60 to Target and have easy access to NES games if all we had to do was what you stated?